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The Public Relations Handbook, 5th Edition
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The Public Relations Handbook, 5th Edition

by Alison Theaker
May 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
556 pages
18h 3m
English
Routledge
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Chapter 12Media relations in the social media age

Philip Young

Chapter Aims

This chapter examines one of the most visible manifestations of public relations activity. It looks at some of the cultural conventions of journalism and their implications for organisational communication, setting this in the context of a rapidly evolving media landscape.

News and Public Relations

What is news? Where does our news come from? If the first question is a little tricky, the second is becoming ever more difficult to answer. Even if the initial response was something along the lines of ‘topical information found in newspapers and television and radio programmes’, rapid changes to the media landscape make even a vaguely adequate answer hard to furnish. Newspapers, ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781317487364